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NASA Invents Explanation For Recent Fireball Cluster: It’s ‘Fireball Season’

Saturday, February 16, 2013 18:33
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Tanya Lewis
Space.com
Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:12 CST
 
 

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The meteor which exploded over the Urals of central Russia was seen by Meteosat-9, at the edge of the satellite view. Hundreds of people were reportedly injured as the meteor’s massive sonic boom caused widespread damage. Image taken Feb. 15, 2013, 3:15 UTC.
 

Astronomer Ian Holliday studied photographic records of roughly a thousand fireballs from the 1970s and 80s, finding what looked like a fireball stream crossing Earth’s orbit during February, late summer and fall. Halliday’s results are somewhat controversial, but the phenomenon appears real.

The meteor which exploded over the Urals of central Russia was seen by Meteosat-9, at the edge of the satellite view. Hundreds of people were reportedly injured as the meteor’s massive sonic boom caused widespread damage.

It’s fireball season on Earth, and it is starkly clear for residents in eastern Russia where a bright fireball exploded in the atmosphere early today (Feb. 15).


Comment: The only sense in which it is ‘Fireball Season’ is that these next few months and years are going to see a whole lot more fireballs than usual.
 
For reasons scientists don’t quite understand, there appears to be an increase in the number of bright meteors visible blazing through the night sky during the month of February. The notion hit home today when a meteor exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains, injuring more than 900 people and damaging thousands of buildings, according to press reports. (Another space rock, the asteroid 2012DA14, is on course to pass very close to Earth Friday evening, but will not hit the planet.)


Comment: Yes, they noticed a string of bright fireballs in February last year, so they invented the term ‘February Fireballs.’ But then bright fireballs continued to appear so they called the next cluster the ‘April Fireballs’, and so on. They won’t just come straight out and tell you that fireballs are increasing all the time.
 

 
When are they ever straight with us.It looks like they invent explanations as they go along.

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  • I think common sense dictates that if there’s one confirmed object incoming then chances are there’s other objects tagging along and this recent asteroid flyby proves it.

  • NASA is lying…The meteor was shot down…This is 100% proof…make it viral to expose NASA lies…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzKhPIArIKQ

  • The meteor blast over Russia strongly resembled a powerful nuclear blast — and seems to have been a harbinger of things to come — both on earth and from the sky in the form of God’s wrath.

  • As i said in another post, the sun and the planets are in a 25500 year orbit and pass though the galactic plane twice in that orbit every 12750 years or so, last time it happened the ice age ended and the sea level rose 400 feet, it will take years to pass though this denser part of space and we will meet many new comets and such on the way, when we reach the centre of the plane then meteor hits could happen every day, but that is not our main worry, water is, this denser space is compressing our atmosphere so increasing the size of the storms, lows will get much bigger and wider and storm surges will get much higher that could flood any towns and cities on the coast that they pass, so expect many more hits and many more sandy type storms only bigger, it could take a few generations to pass though the plane and return to normal but by then anyone remembering this age would have long died of old age, so you could say the Mayans were right, last year was the end of a life style that won’t return.

    So it don’t matter what the politicians do they are only caretakers of a life style that is in its death throws, and they have always known, they have their bunkers to hide in, they are just trying to make it look as if all is ok.

    When they start to hit on a regular basis so the air will fill with dust this will cause crop failures world wide, it has happened many times before and man did try to record it but it lasted so long he gave just one word for it, he called it hell.

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